Chakradhar- the greedy man

There once lived four Brahmin friends who, despite their learning, were very poor. Finally, they
were tired of their penury and decided to move to another country to earn money. They reached
Ujjayini. After taking bath in the river shipra, they visited the mahakaleshwar temple.
As they were coming out of the temple, they met a hermit named bhairwanad and accompanied
him to his hermitage. After treating his guests, the hermit asked:where have you come from and
where do you want to go?
They replied: we are poor Brahmins. We want to acquire wealth. We have decided that either
we will became wealthy or give up our lives.

They sought his help in this regard. Bhairwanad then gave them four lamps whose wicks were
blessed with the powers of and said: go towards the Himalayas and walk until the wicks of your
lamps begin to fall one by one. Dig at the place where the wicks of your lamp fall and you will
find wealth.
The four friends proceeded towards the Himalayas with the lamps. After some time, the wick of
the lamps fell down. All of them dug up the place and were amazed to find a copper mine. The
first Brahmin told his friends to take all the copper, but they refused. So he took as much copper
as he could carry and returned home.

The remaining three friends proceeded further. After traveling for some time, the wick of the
second friends lamp fell down. They dug up the place and found a silver mine. The second
Brahmin asked his friends to talk all the silver. But they refused; thinking that first it was copper,
then silver, so may be they would strike gold the third time. The second Brahmin took as much
silver as he could carry and turned back
Now only two Brahmin were left. They proceeded further. Soon, the wick of the third lamp fell
down. Both dug up the place and were amazes to find a mine of gold. The third Brahmin asked
his friend to return take all the gold, but the letter refused, anticipating jewels in his mine. So the
third Brahmin took as much gold he could carry and prepared to return. The forth Brahmin
requested him to go along with him, but the third refused, saying: I will wait for you here. Go
and try your luck.

The forth Brahmin proceeded alone. After walking some distance, he found an injured man lying
on the ground, with a wheel spinning over him. He went near the man: who are you? How did
you get injured? And why is this wheel spinning over your head?

Hardly had the forth Brahmin finished his words, when the wheel left the injured man and stuck
to his head. The injured man replied that just like him, he too had gone in search question: since
then, the found wheel had been spinning over my head. Now your misery will only end when a
man arrives here with a desire for wealth.

Saying this, the injured man disappeared while the fourth Brahmin remaining there with the
wheel over his head.

Now the third friend who had discovered gold was still waiting for the fourth Brahmin. When he
did not turn up even after many days, the third Brahmin was worried and went in search of the
fourth. Reaching the place, he found the forth friend lying injured, with a wheel spinning over
his head and Asked how this had happened.

The fourth friend narrated the story. The third said: intelligence has greater value than learning
or knowledge. Even qualified people lacking in intelligence are destroyed like the Brahmins who
knew how to bring a dead lion back to life.

Insight 1: working together, rather than individually, help you attain your goals more easily.
Insight 2: the three places where the men struck gold, silver and copper probably had enough
to make the entire city wealthy. Yet the fourth man did not know the limits of agreed. Ambition
is good but the dividing line between ambition and greed is critical. Good fortune can be pushed
only up to a point and not beyond. Only a mature mind can recognize where ambition ends and
greed beings.